Gemini Newsgroup RFD

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On Monday, October 4th, 2021 at 07:09, Plain Text <text@sdfeu.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:54:39 +0100, Oliver Simmons wrote:
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> > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 00:16, Plain Text text@sdfeu.org wrote:
> >
> > > merged group for c.i.gopher and c.i.gemini – but lacking a … name
> >
> > "Small-web" or "small-net" are sometimes used, most often to describe a
> >
> > combination browser for these protocols.
> >
> > There's quite a bit of overlap between the communities.
>
> Thanks, so true! And so I began to write an RFD document for "Small Scale
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> Hypertext Information Systems" in the same pad (carbon copy below):
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> https://pads.ccc.de/comp-infosystems-gemini-rfd
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> Please, anybody feel free to edit along and/or give other input, also on
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> the name and the byline, and the whole endeavour, of course, as I do not
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> want to diminish the efforts already put into the first RFD process.
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> Shall we post to news.groups to discuss this RFD along the other? Cheers
>
> --- alternative/additional rfd for comp.infosystems.small ---
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> REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD) This is a formal Request for Discussion
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> (RFD) for the creation of the unmoderated newsgroup:
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> comp.infosystems.small
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> NEWSGROUPS LINE:
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> comp.infosystems.small Small Scale Hypertext Information Spaces
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> RATIONALE: comp.infosystems.small
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> The idea for creating the newsgroup comp.infosystems.small originated
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> while drafting an RFD for comp.infosystems.gemini as Gemini has some
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> overlap with Gopher. Both are hypertext systems much more focussed on
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> textual content than the World Wide Web (with its portrayed surveillance
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> capitalism in places) and thus address similar concerns. Here a joint
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> newsgroup for Gopher, Gemini, and similar small infosystems is proposed
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> for the following reasons.
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> -   The existing Gopher and a future Gemini newsgroup do not seem to be or
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>     get too crowded each. A joint newsgroup would probably not drown in
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>     traffic, either.
> -   The joint newsgroup would also invite discussions of related systems or
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>     communities, e.g. individual or decentralized "small web"/"small net"
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>     instances such as personal diaries served via http(s) or any other
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>     protocol.
> -   A newsgroup not being restricted to a named protocol is thus also open
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>     for future discussions of yet unknown technological undertakings in
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>     establishing small or niche communities in information space.
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>     Currently discussions about small web/net take place in weblogs, gemini
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>     logs, gopher holes, twtxt, mastodon, IRC, tilde spaces, and elsewhere.
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>     The newsgroup comp.infosystems.small could be a new common place.
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>     Oftentimes, the concept also is referred to using the mistyping term
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>     "smol" instead of "small" like in "smol net", cf. e.g. https://
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>     communitywiki.org/wiki/SmolNet
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>     Upon creating the group comp.infosystems.small, the existing
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>     comp.infosystems.gopher shall be deleted or merged into
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>     comp.infosystems.small.
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>     CHARTER: comp.infosystems.small
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>     comp.infosystems.small covers information spaces such as hypertext
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>     systems using internet protocols such as gopher, https, gemini as well as
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>     the technology and tools created by its various communities' members.
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>     Binaries should not be posted to the group.
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>     MODERATION POLICY: unmoderated